Shrub 0.5-3.5 m high. Leaves 2.5-5 cm long, pinnatipartite and mostly partly bipinnatipartite, with rachis angularly deflexed at each node; primary lobes 5-11, divaricate, at least the basal lobes usually again 3-5-partite; ultimate lobes linear, 0.2-2.5 cm long, 0.5-1.5 mm wide, divaricate, pungent; margins tightly and smoothly revolute; lower surface enclosed except for midvein, packed with appressed flexuose hairs in grooves. Unit conflorescence erect, secund; floral rachis 50-90 mm long. Flower colour: perianth grey, green, or pale yellow, sometimes flushed pink; style black to blackish maroon. Perianth subsericeous outside. Pistil 18-23 mm long; ovary ±sessile; style glabrous except for appressed hairs just above ovary. Follicle 11.5-14 mm long, usually tomentose to pubescent with biramous hairs, sometimes also with small simple erect hairs.
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